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| "Lights Out" Larson |
BOXING!!! Rebecca, my friend on her quest to become a world-famous conductor, was recently instructed to take up a sport by one of her conducting tormentors/teachers. Instead of picking a nice sport like, oh... tennis or golf, Rebecca went all out and chose boxing. Lucky for me, she asked me to go to her first class with her.
The boxing place was in the hood. The bathrooms were dirty. The mirrors inside were cracked and taped together. I am very proud of us for staying and not running away (you can get a feel for the place by looking at how dirty the walls are behind me...). We started with 15 minutes of jumping rope. I am not very good at that... Next we did stations, one of which involved hanging from ropes that were coming from the ceiling - hard but fun. Then it was finally time to hit stuff!!! We wrapped our hands with our newly purchased hand wrap things and then we put on incredibly stinky boxing gloves. I learned the ol' one-two punch. We spent the rest of the class hitting a heavy bag. I must have looked scary because I was really beating the crap out of that bag, but I was also smiling the whole time... It was so much fun! Who knew I'd enjoy hitting things so much?
Our class was a 'level one girls only' class. It was a great intro to boxing, but I want to try a coed class with Andy because I think he'd like it - and I also think he would be very impressed with my skillz, lol. I haven't had a chance to talk to Rebecca yet today to hear if she is too scarred by the experience or not, but I would definitely do it again. :-)
On the other hand, the quest to be a healthy eater is not going well at all. At least I'm staying active - I'm not sure how to turn the food part around, but I've gotta figure it out soon!
I want to box too! Was this place on Culver?
ReplyDeleteYes! You would LOVE it. It's on Atlantic. We drove by the one on Culver and thankfully the one we went to did not look quite as scary as that one!
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